Elder Paisios Of Mount Athos Quotes

#1. The gentlemen like it when a lady smells sweet.

Bertrice Small

#2. I see her now."
I stop and look at him. "Um, see who?"
"You. The girl I used to know.

Nyrae Dawn

#3. Nothing is more dangerous in practice, than an obstinate, unbending adherence to a system, particularly in its application to the wants and errors of mankind.

Jean-Baptiste Say

#4. Thoughts are like airplanes flying in the air. If you ignore them, there is no problem. If you pay attention to them, you create an airport inside your head and permit them to land!

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#5. We have the power of the Holy Cross, our holy symbol, the divine grace of Christ, only as long as we have the holy marking of the Holy Baptism, meaning we have denied the devil and sided with Christ, and received the Holy Marking, the seal of the Gift of the Holy Spirit.

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#6. The goal is to rise spiritually, not simply to avoid sin.

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#7. If the Cross is God's masterpiece of His love, then the Eucharist is the centerpiece of our worship.

Gangai Victor

#8. When you're a kid, nine times out of 10, everthing is pure depending on how you grow up. Everything is new as a kid, so it's all amazing and wonderful. But as we get older, things start to lose their luster or possibly their relevance. Things don't mean as much as they did then. I know the feeling.

Corey Taylor

#9. Faithfulness to the moment and to the present circumstance entails continuous surrender.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

#10. If I see a movie on TV that I'm in, I usually will watch it for that reason: It's like I'm watching another person.

Dakota Fanning

#11. The kids get cheated out of a lot of times with their dad. They were good about it.

Pat Burns

#12. I don't call myself a writer.

Bruce Boxleitner

#13. Live simply and without thinking too much, like a child with his father. Faith without too much thinking works wonders. The logical mind hinders the Grace of God and miracles. Practice patience without judging with the logical mind.

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#14. When there is a respect for small things, there will be an even greater respect towards the bigger things. When there is no respect for small things, then neither will there be for the bigger ones. This is how the Fathers maintained Tradition.

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#15. Every moment in life is an act of faith

Paulo Coelho

#16. You won't hear me talk about my politics, you won't hear me talk about my vegetarianism, you won't hear me comment on the Iraq war. You'll only hear me talk about being gay and being an actor. I am just public on those two issues.

Ian McKellen

#17. Bilbo was going to be eleventy-one, 111, a rather curious number, and a very respectable age for a hobbit (the Old Took himself had only reached 130); and Frodo was going to be thirty-three, 33, an important number: the date of his 'coming of age'.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#18. So in every test, let us say: "Thank you, my God, because this was needed for my salvation."

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#19. No matter how good a story is, if you're at a newsstand and you see a lot of comic books, you don't know how good the story is unless you read it. But you can spot the artwork instantly, and you know whether you like the artwork, whether it grabs you or not.

Stan Lee

#20. But don't I have any freedom of speech?"
"In your own house. Not in mine."
"Don't I have a right to my own ideas?"
"At your own expense. Not at mine."
"Don't you tolerate any differences of opinion?"
"Not when I'm paying the bills.

Ayn Rand

#21. Do not believe your thoughts, neither when they tell you that you are terrible, nor when they tell you that you are a saint.

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